Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convince the 30,000 delegates from all over the world that Russia is a land of peace and prosperity; second, they sought to placate signs of discord among the youth of the country by distracting them with the show of the century; and third, they were making a grandstand play for favorable world-wide publicity...
...chosen one-act play will be performed...
...play will be produced by Leverett with Strindberg's Miss Julie...
...Work & Play. Billy went through Groton and Princeton ('36). while Cousin Fred, at his princely estates at Newport and in Europe, taught him to work hard and play hard. At midnight after a 17-hour day, Prince often gave Billy a packet of francs and sent him off to the casinos to learn how to lose gracefully. While Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...